Divinity in Dilemma

Divinity in dilemma!

Sometimes I think, aren’t we better off without religion?

Let’s go with the conventional paraphernalia with which children are taught the importance of a certain subject. Why is it important, its advantages and necessity in our lives, its side effects.

Why Religion? Let’s ignore the ostensible stuff of higher supreme and follow what our ophthalmic and olfactory senses believe in. Since we cannot see, touch, smell god there is certainly no point in even making a harbinger of an altercation towards it. Let’s try to focus on how it came into existence, how the notion of religion beget. Fear is one thing that has kept humans on its knees. When the news of yet another rape pops up, we talk about more stringent laws. Because fear is what that keeps humans saner and maintains law and order. Embellishing our lives with a concept of god and karma makes us fear god and hence our actions are always thought twice before being taken. But, are we so callow that we need an imaginative creature to keep our actions checked? Can’t we actually study this along with our never useful concept of trajectory of a hyperbole and ellipse? So, point taken is – Religion was created to imbue fear in humans and maintain law and order. Also, we can be responsible enough to maintain law and order along with being atheist or agnostics.

Side effects-> An important theory says, around 80% of the mass killings, genocide, culpable homicide, riots, pogroms, mass rapes and other hedonistic practices are done under the name of religion ? Then why the world is taking so along to turn into being more rational than being more religious. How can a rape done under the name of religion be justified? No Amnesty Court of God can vindicate the action. 47 % of China’s population is non-religious and rationalists. Yet, it is one of the strongest economies in the world and we see no calamitous and catastrophic action being taken by God there.

Why cannot we all be rationalists, believing in right karma than right god? Do we always need a hand to embrace our finger and show us the right path? It will save us 80% of the killings done in the world. People will have no reason to vandalise public property and initiates pogroms. There will be no gloomy cases of honour killings. There will be no Vishwa Hindu Parishad wasting important resources of time and money in initiatives as “Ghar Wapsi”. The same resources can be put into “Ghar Ekta” instead. There will be no canvassing of votes under the name of religion and no accusations on the opposition of “hurting the religious sentiments”. There will be no mass partitions in any country which acted as a catalyst of still growing terrorists and insurgents. There will be no inequality of superiority and inferiority.

Give it a thought! What we have not seen might not be actually there. May be this world is better off without religion, but at the same time with more responsibilities on our shoulder for a serene place to live in where we ourselves our Gods of our own destinies.